Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox under KDE plasma

2018-02-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 13 February 2018 8:33:09 AM IST you wrote: > Hello, > > I recently tried KDE plasma after 5.12 update and it is running smooth. > However I am experiencing two problems with virtualbox. kde plasma wayland to be specific :( It all works under kde plasma Xorg. > > 1. Virtualbox

[arch-general] Virtualbox under KDE plasma

2018-02-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I recently tried KDE plasma after 5.12 update and it is running smooth. However I am experiencing two problems with virtualbox. 1. Virtualbox applications do not start unless QT_QPA_PLATFORM is set to xcb. Under plasma wayland session it is set to wayland. 2. When a VM is launched, if

Re: [arch-general] firejail and network

2017-10-10 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 10 October 2017 6:33:25 AM IST Herminio Hernandez, Jr. via arch- general wrote: > Do you just run 'firejail firefox' from the terminal? Do have any custom > settings? yes, just 'firejail firefox', no customizations either. Thanks. -- Regards Shridhar

Re: [arch-general] firejail and network

2017-10-10 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 10 October 2017 11:33:25 AM IST NTS wrote: > Dear Shridhar, > > It's a known bug in firejail that has apparently been fixed upstream. > Once Arch's maintainer does a pull you may be fine: > > https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/1591#issuecomment-334749301 > > So, it is not

[arch-general] firejail and network

2017-10-09 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, For some time, chromium, firefox and qupzilla are unable to reach network/ internet/dns, if started from firejail. When started normally, all of these can reach the network as expected. So the internet link is not the problem. Has anybody experienced this? Any pointers to debug?

Re: [arch-general] sandboxing

2017-02-05 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Saturday 4 February 2017 11:00:12 PM IST Leonid Isaev wrote: > > Exactly. If I am running chromium with firejail, which whitelists what > > chromium can do to the file system(even better with --private); the > > browser > > cannot tamper with .profile/.bash_profile or .ssh. > > See, this is

Re: [arch-general] sandboxing

2017-02-04 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 5 February 2017 6:10:51 AM IST sivmu wrote: > Am 05.02.2017 um 05:16 schrieb Shridhar Daithankar: > > On Saturday 4 February 2017 7:28:31 AM IST sivmu wrote: > >> As long as the application has access to the xwayland instance, which is > >> by default the case

Re: [arch-general] sandboxing

2017-02-04 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Saturday 4 February 2017 7:28:31 AM IST sivmu wrote: > As long as the application has access to the xwayland instance, which is > by default the case when xwayland is available, it can influence all > other applications that still use the x-protcol. Just to understand, if there are two

Re: [arch-general] System crash troubleshooting help?

2016-01-06 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On बुधवार, ६ जानेवारी, २०१६ १०:५४:०७ म.उ. IST Aron Widforss wrote: > Good evening all, > > I was just watching Linux Sucks > (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pOxlazS3zs) on Youtube when my system > froze. It was the whole system, I could for example not switch to a TTY. > The audio was looping a

Re: [arch-general] plasma 5.5 and wayland

2015-12-16 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On मंगळवार 15 डिसें 2015 9:11:15 AM Bhushan Shah wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Shridhar Daithankar > > Any suggestions? What package I am missing? > > > > Following is the output generated by startplasmacompositor. > > Currently t

[arch-general] plasma 5.5 and wayland

2015-12-14 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi all, Has anybody got plasma 5.5 under wayland working? I have weston working which I can launch from sddm. So hardware is not a problem I suppose. I have created a test user with no existing configuration at all. When I run startplasmacompositor, it displays the splash screen and then goes

Re: [arch-general] systemd-nspawn : centOS container

2015-01-31 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Saturday 31 Jan 2015 9:01:39 AM arnaud gaboury wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: On Friday 30 Jan 2015 7:12:18 PM arnaud gaboury wrote: I have happily used a second Arch as a container booted with systemd-nspawn. I would

Re: [arch-general] systemd-nspawn : centOS container

2015-01-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 30 Jan 2015 7:12:18 PM arnaud gaboury wrote: I have happily used a second Arch as a container booted with systemd-nspawn. I would like now install a CentOS container, but I am not sure how to proceed the install. What is the correct way ? - first install minimal CentOS from an iso

Re: [arch-general] Deploy Arch linux to many virtual machines

2014-01-24 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday, January 24, 2014 02:17:01 AM Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Thursday 23 Jan 2014 21:59:06 Plonky Duby wrote: You can use docker. http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/archlinux/ Thank you; I was not aware of Docker. It looks *awesome*. FYI, stock lxc works very well with

Re: [arch-general] Deploy Arch linux to many virtual machines

2014-01-23 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday, January 24, 2014 06:45:27 AM Кравец Роман wrote: Dear Plonky, No. I have many virtual machines on VirtualBox virtualization. I want, that on during first boot virtual machine will install arch linux over PXE. wouldn't it be better to create and import an appliance? Achieves the

Re: [arch-general] Deploy Arch linux to many virtual machines

2014-01-23 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday, January 24, 2014 08:05:26 AM Кравец Роман wrote: Dear Shridhar, I want set specified network setting and root password to each new machines. My script get setting over HTTP JSON request and get setting from master machine. create the appliance such that 1. it gets on network via

[arch-general] problems while upgrading kdelibs

2013-05-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, While upgrading kdelibs-4.10.2-4 x86_64, I am getting errors such as these.. kdelibs: /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.kde.auth.conf exists in filesystem kdelibs: /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu exists in filesystem kdelibs: /usr/bin/checkXML exists in filesystem kdelibs:

Re: [arch-general] problems while upgrading kdelibs

2013-05-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday, May 09, 2013 08:42:41 AM Shridhar Daithankar wrote: Hello, While upgrading kdelibs-4.10.2-4 x86_64, I am getting errors such as these.. kdelibs: /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.kde.auth.conf exists in filesystem kdelibs: /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu exists in filesystem

[arch-general] strange behaviour of pacman, what did I do?

2013-03-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi I was updating an archroot, created with mkarchroot to play with lxc. I thought following would work but it was doing something else altogether [root@bheem lxc]# pacman -Su -c /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ --root=$PWD/server1 Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

Re: [arch-general] strange behaviour of pacman, what did I do?

2013-03-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:20:08 AM Eric Bélanger wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Shridhar Daithankar What did pacman do the first time? The man page does not have bare -c option and it wasn't -Sc where it started cleaning the packages(or was it?) -Sc and -S -c do the same

Re: [arch-general] linux 3.5 and resolution EDID problem

2012-08-31 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 31 Aug 2012 9:13:30 AM Alexandre Ferrando wrote: It's an already reported bug, fix has landed in 3.6-rc3. See [ 0 ] for more info on the bug and patches to fix it. It will solve the display issue but you'll still see EDID reporting on dmesg PS: One of the patches will fail to apply

[arch-general] linux 3.5 and resolution EDID problem

2012-08-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello all, After upgrading to linux-3.5.2, my monitor lost its highest resolution of 1360x768 and went to 1024x768 instead. Downgrading to linux-3.4.9 fixed the issue for the moment. There are some problems reported with linux-3.5-rc4, such as

Re: [arch-general] linux 3.5 and resolution EDID problem

2012-08-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 31 Aug 2012 1:58:23 AM rafael ff1 wrote: 2012/8/31 Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net: Did you try linux 3.5.3 from [core] ? Sorry for the typo in the port, I was using 3.5.3 only shridhar@bheem ~$ ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg|grep linux|grep 3.5 linux-3.5.3-1-x86_64

[arch-general] kde and systemd [was Re: [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package]

2012-08-27 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 27 Aug 2012 11:30:46 AM Joakim Hernberg wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:48:32 +0200 Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: But this only concerns the booting itself. As consolekit is unmaintained, polkit will soon depend on systemd. The next Gnome version will require systemd

Re: [arch-general] time zone problem with systemd

2012-08-18 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Saturday 18 Aug 2012 8:04:58 PM Keshav P R wrote: Your problem might be due to RTC (motherboard) clock being in local time (generally the case if you dual-boot with Windows. Systemd assumes that RTC is in UTC, but in case of initscripts it can be configured to be localtime. Hence the time

[arch-general] time zone problem with systemd

2012-08-17 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I am having trouble with time on a machine when I boot with systemd. The clock is ahead of actual time by the value of time zone offset. Funny thing is when I boot with initscripts, time is reported correctly. I have this problem on one machine but other machine works correctly. The

Re: [arch-general] Personal note

2012-08-15 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 15 Aug 2012 7:27:29 PM Tom Gundersen wrote: Hi guys, As most devs have done already, I'm going to change my relationship with arch-general. This probably does not matter to most of you, so sorry for the noise. Then again, it might be a useful reminder about how most devs

Re: [arch-general] Partition mounting in systemd [WAS: Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd]

2012-08-14 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 15 Aug 2012 8:53:37 AM Oon-Ee Ng wrote: Do I need to do something additional to get systemd to 'give up' partitions totally? tell systemd not to use fsck on btrfs partition? Something like this?(pasted from my fstab) /dev/sda1 /data btrfs noatime,flushoncommit,defaults 0 0

[arch-general] KDE and plasma-desktop CPU usage

2012-08-11 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I recently formatted an acer netbook with intel atom processor, 32 bit, 1.66GHz/1GB RAM, with arch. I installed kde on it, everything went as expected. However when I log in with a normal user, the KDE start-up completes but the splash screen is stuck. plasma-desktop process is eating

[arch-general] systemd and btrfs

2012-07-29 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello All, Just for the sake of archives, I had noted a few days ago, that systemd won't pick up my home partition after an unclean shutdown. The message is available at http://www.mail-archive.com/arch-general@archlinux.org/msg28445.html However, a later and unrelated discussion revealed the

[arch-general] [Solved] Re: pacman and corrupt packages

2012-07-25 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 25 Jul 2012 11:15:48 AM Krzysztof Warzecha wrote: 2012/7/25 Ike Devolder ike.devol...@gmail.com: That is an option I have not yet tried but I just want to preserve the reproduction and debug the problem if there is any. Maybe this will help: cd /var/lib/pacman/pkg for pkg

[arch-general] pacman and corrupt packages

2012-07-24 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello All, Last few days my net connection drops randomly or slows down to a crawl. As a result, there are several timeouts during package downloads. When a download timeout occurs, pacman aborts with invalid or corrupted package. Is it possible to detect which package is corrupt and invalid,

Re: [arch-general] pacman and corrupt packages

2012-07-24 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Followup, On Wednesday 25 Jul 2012 9:03:42 AM Shridhar Daithankar wrote: With pacman -sy --debug I get following error snippet - debug: found cached pkg: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ati-dri-8.0.4-2- x86_64.pkg.tar.xz debug: sig data: iQEcBAABAgAGBQJQC9QHAAoJEJRlerIPKgkrd/EH

Re: [arch-general] pacman and corrupt packages

2012-07-24 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 24 Jul 2012 11:58:14 PM Jeremiah Dodds wrote: Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Jeremiah Dodds Does it continue after a pacman -Scc? Why are you recommending clearing his entire cache (which can be quite useful) when he's already

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-22 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 22 Jul 2012 6:28:58 PM Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't mean the Arch devs, I meant Mr. Poettering friends. Ah, I see. I made clear that I think the Arch devs have a difficult task, trying to keep the

[arch-general] kopete and google talk

2012-03-08 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I have configured a gmail account in kopete and google talk/libjingle is enabled. However if I right click on the contact properties, Call google talk contact is always disabled. What do I need to do to get it working? TIA. -- Regards Shridhar

Re: [arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video

2012-02-02 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday, February 02, 2012 02:32:47 AM Shridhar Daithankar wrote: On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:40:05 PM Tim Stella wrote: Does anybody else experience this too? Do videos on the youtube site itself work? I don't think that embedded videos will work with html5. Nope. tried

[arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video

2012-02-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello All, this has been bothering me for some time, so just posting for wider audience. Facts, all applicable to rekonq and konqueror with webkit part - I have qtwebkit,kwebkitpart and rekonq installed - I am on youtube html5 demo trial. youtube.com/html5 reports support for webm and h.264

Re: [arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video

2012-02-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:40:05 PM Tim Stella wrote: Does anybody else experience this too? Do videos on the youtube site itself work? I don't think that embedded videos will work with html5. Nope. tried the following(a trailor from a upcoming hindi movie), same symptoms.

Re: [arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video

2012-02-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:17:48 PM Peter Lewis wrote: On Thursday 02 Feb 2012 01:55:47 Shridhar Daithankar wrote: - youtube html5 video does not work. I get a progress bar but no video frames. Does anybody else experience this too? I still have this problem too with my

Re: [arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video

2012-02-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 09:57:10 PM Isaac Dupree wrote: On 02/01/2012 03:40 PM, Tim Stella wrote: Do videos on the youtube site itself work? I don't think that embedded videos will work with html5. Embedded videos from youtube do work (sometimes; increasingly often as

Re: [arch-general] Writing my mother tongue in LibreOffice.

2011-08-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 12 Aug 2011 6:35:59 PM Madhurya Kakati wrote: So basically I can use my english qwerty keyboard to enter assamese characters? That's great. So I just have to install ibus and then I can write in Assamese in libreoffice writer? There are multiple ways to achieve the same thing. It

[arch-general] Fwd: [PLUG] The World's Easiest Arch Linux Manual

2011-08-06 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
-- Regards Shridhar---BeginMessage--- Hi, As we started publishing manuals on Muktware a few months ago. We just published a detailed Arch Linux manual. The manual is targetted at those users who want to try it but fail to do due to lack of easy manuals. ArchWiki is an excellent source,

Re: [arch-general] liberoffice 3.4.2 strange behaviour with odt files

2011-08-04 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 03 Aug 2011 9:31:57 PM Al wrote: Shridhar Daithankar wrote: I just faced a strange problem with libreoffice 3.4.2. An old odt file, created with libreoffice 3.4.1, around jul 20. Today when I went to open it with libreoffice 3.4.2, I was asked for filter selection

[arch-general] liberoffice 3.4.2 strange behaviour with odt files

2011-08-03 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I just faced a strange problem with libreoffice 3.4.2. An old odt file, created with libreoffice 3.4.1, around jul 20. Today when I went to open it with libreoffice 3.4.2, I was asked for filter selection, the available options being - Help Content - ODF chart - Openoffice.org 1.0

Re: [arch-general] The need for /lib64 - testing please

2011-07-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 01 Jul 2011 10:18:42 AM Allan McRae wrote: If you want to try it out, just remove the /lib64 folder (after making sure it only has symlinks to ld-2.13.so and ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 in it. Run your system as usual for a while and report any issues you come across. Never bothered to look

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-24 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 24 September 2010 18:52:30 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: It seems btrfs is really worth a try after so many positive feedbacks. Any ideas how can I format / with latest btrfs? I've the archiso on my pen drive which was released months ago, I guess it doesn't have the latest btrfs-progs?

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-22 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 18:37:56 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Hmm, after reading some responses, I don't think I'll use BTRFS on /, because the power here is quite unreliable and my UPS can't guarantee proper switching (it's nearly 12 yrs old!). So, what else would you guys recommend on

Re: [arch-general] kde 4.5.1-1 looks much better.

2010-09-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday 02 September 2010 04:53:24 David C. Rankin wrote: On 09/01/2010 01:46 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: KDE is fancy, but snappy it is not. Funny, the windows side of the world found out that gigabyte desktops aren't that snappy either. Wonder if there is a common thread. IMO KDE part of

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 28 June 2010 19:11:09 Peter Lewis wrote: if memory serves correct from gentoo days it has to do with qt phonon an kde phonon stepping on each others toes... however it might be for different reasons in arch. No idea really, but a quick query tells me that phonon is provided as a

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 28 June 2010 19:11:09 Peter Lewis wrote: Or alternatively, can you tell webkit to look for the separate phonon that's not provided with Qt when it builds? Thats not possible. The webkit build system for qt port, looks for qt config only. There is no way to provide it. OK, this can

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 00:08:15 Damjan Georgievski wrote: I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I want to get youtube working ASAP. To that end, I downloaded nightly sources of webkit(not wanting to download the entire svn checkout) and built the qt

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 01:55:39 Caleb Cushing wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I want to get youtube working ASAP. chromium 5 suppport h264 and 6 (if you

[arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-27 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I want to get youtube working ASAP. To that end, I downloaded nightly sources of webkit(not wanting to download the entire svn checkout) and built the qt port. However the video element is still missing, as tested on

Re: [arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-06-25 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 25 June 2010 19:24:14 Ionuț Bîru wrote: did you got the blue or the red pill? obligatory http://xkcd.com/566/ -- Regards Shridhar

Re: [arch-general] Compiling Firefox

2010-05-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 31 May 2010 09:03:08 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 31/05/10 13:23, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. that's a firefox port for the qt toolkit, as opposed to the

[arch-general] firefox addon [Re: Compiling Firefox]

2010-05-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 31 May 2010 09:48:51 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Nope. I have 24 addons in Firefox. Just cannot leave firefox. I loved the chrome UI, so installed chromifox extreme (with chromifox companion) which makes firefox look and behave like chrome :D Firefox QT's screenshots are impressive,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-2 (and aufs2)

2010-05-09 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 09 May 2010 23:22:19 Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 09.05.2010 19:37, schrieb Thomas Bächler: Am 09.05.2010 19:23, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: I noticed the same. But this is caused by the mkinitcpio update and not the kernel. In my case logo.nologo in the kernel parameter line was

[arch-general] upgrade problems

2010-04-09 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi, I got this pacman error just now, when I wanted to upgrade to 2.6.33. # pacman -Su :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: kqemu: requires kernel262.6.33 :: madwifi:

[arch-general] pacman error

2010-03-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I got this error when I ran pacman -Syu. [r...@bheem horo]# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... ... lots of package

Re: [arch-general] pacman error

2010-03-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 06:58:44 Andrea Scarpino wrote: On Wednesday 31 March 2010 02:11:09 Shridhar Daithankar wrote: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y checking package integrity... error: error while reading package /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdebindings- smoke-4.4.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Re: [arch-general] Open Konsole Here ???

2010-03-19 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 19 March 2010 11:59:06 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: KDE used to have an Open Konsole Here option as it appears in Nautilus when you install nautilus-open-terminal. Where's it vanished ? Or I'm missing some addon ? Hit F4 in dolphin :). Although it will open konsole part and not a full

Re: [arch-general] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

2010-03-16 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 14:41:41 Nathan Wayde wrote: On 16/03/10 00:48, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: [...] But as far as file system performance goes, the overhead should be identical for both the runs, no? I'm not too sure about that. I'm guessing there is less seeking going

Re: [arch-general] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

2010-03-15 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 15 March 2010 15:44:35 Nathan Wayde wrote: On 13/03/10 03:05, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: Hi, Just wanted to share an interesting experience I had today. Check http://ghodechhap.net/btrfs.performance.txt Maybe you're looking for http://docs.python.org/library/filecmp.html

Re: [arch-general] Security

2010-03-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 12 March 2010 19:26:13 Heiko Baums wrote: Am Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:49:17 - schrieb Gordon Campbell gordy2...@hotmail.co.uk: I am new to this list and fairly new to Arch Linux. My Question is do I need to install a firewall? if so which one? ufw is a good iptables frontend.

[arch-general] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

2010-03-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi, Just wanted to share an interesting experience I had today. Check http://ghodechhap.net/btrfs.performance.txt -- Regards Shridhar

[arch-general] attempting to build firefox-qt

2010-03-09 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Subject: attempting to build firefox-qt Date: Tuesday 09 March 2010, 15:40:55 From: Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net To: arch-dev-pub...@archlinux.org Hello, I am interested in building firefox with Qt. Following directions from https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Pjohnsen

Re: [arch-general] A good twitter client

2010-03-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 07 March 2010 13:08:42 christopher floess wrote: On 03/07/2010 03:15 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Hi, Does anyone know a good twitter client for KDE apart from Firefox's echofon, Chromed Bird (I don't use GChrome), and KDE μblog ? Twitgin sucks if you have to many tweets from

Re: [arch-general] Something is seriously wrong with FlashPlugin; makes chrome firefox crash like crazy

2010-03-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 07 March 2010 20:54:24 Gaurish Sharma wrote: Hi, My CPU is Intel E5300.AKAIK, lahf only applies to AMD athlon 64 line of chips. Plus, flash earlier used to work but this crashing has started about 2-3weeks back. anyone else having similar issues I am running a E7400 with

Re: [arch-general] Unable to upgrade

2010-02-20 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 21 February 2010 04:35:51 Heiko Baums wrote: Btw., I don't see any good reasons why developers of proprietary software couldn't build x86_64 packages. They should only need to compile their software a second time. Assuming the software is 64 bit clean. Thats a lot to assume! --

Re: [arch-general] Kde upgrade ?phonon/qt?

2010-02-17 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 14:39:53 richard terry wrote: # pacman -Sy --asdeps qt :: qtscriptgenerator: requires phonon How about removing qtscriptgenerator before doing this? You can install it after your upgrade is complete. HTH -- Regards Shridhar

[arch-general] Keeping multiple machines in sync. and updated [Re: A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds]

2010-02-08 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 08:35:14 Mauro Santos wrote: Currently for my personal use I don't want anything else other than Arch but for machines that have more users and _need_ to keep working I'm using centos (devs I'm sorry to hinder your world domination plans but I think I'm not

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-02-08 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 08:32:04 Brendan Long wrote: On 02/08/2010 07:50 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: One very simple solution would be to never delete anything named /usr/lib/*.so* unless you really have to. That requires one regexp match. A hack, not perfect but it would help.

Re: [arch-general] kde44beta - 'virtuoso -t' grabbing ~80% of the CPU every few minutes

2010-02-05 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 05 February 2010 14:08:11 David C. Rankin wrote: Looking at the processes, it is 'virtuoso -t' that is to blame. Can anyone else confirm this behavior ... and .. does anyone know of a workaround? Disble nepomuk? -- Regards Shridhar

Re: [arch-general] kde44beta - 'virtuoso -t' grabbing ~80% of the CPU every few minutes

2010-02-05 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 05 February 2010 18:48:15 David C. Rankin wrote: Thanks Shridhar, I know how to do that. Nepomuk has been working fine in the past versions of 4.3.4, but now it seems that virtuoso isn't behaving properly. Are you seeing this problem as well? I haven't upgraded yet. The

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and security - it needs some work

2010-02-03 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 12:56:57 Robert Howard wrote: suppose my problem with all the Arch security/insecurity talk is that it assumes that Arch users are not more than capable of reading lists and discovering bug and holes in software that we use daily. I don't think there has ever

Re: [arch-general] Server Space for Arch Downloads / AUR / ABS for small X additions the Arch Community might enjoy?

2010-02-03 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 12:31:13 David C. Rankin wrote: I have several good collections of miscellaneous kde themes, kdm/gdm themes, metacity, gtk-2, xcursors, etc.. that I would like to find how best to contribute them to the community. The color-schemes, gnome and kde layout

Re: [arch-general] Prelink/Preload

2010-02-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 01 February 2010 16:09:08 solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: prelink modifies binary and library to ... prelink ;-) them. during the days of kde 3 I noticed a significant improvement in loading time of applications. I have dropped its use (prelink ... and kde3) because some recent binutils(or

Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-27 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday 28 January 2010 03:42:27 Gaurish Sharma wrote: I was able to launch Amarok via the extra media key present on my keyboard. been using the exact same method for speedcrunch, it does not work :( Pl. follow these steps and tell us if it worked. - Go to system settings - input actions

Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 14:46:03 Gaurish Sharma wrote: How to map Custom Keyboard Shortcuts to launch custom Application on KDE4.3? Add custom input actions from system settings. First add a new group and then new actions under it. Special keys should not conflict with existing shortcuts

Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 19:57:26 Gaurish Sharma wrote: Hi, A Rojas and Shridhar Daithankar, I tried your suggest and mapped the shortcut key to launch speedcrunch but it does not work :) * Screenshots: http://www.imagebam.com/image/29bf3765418046 http://www.imagebam.com/image

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.32.4-1 [ Possible Problems... ]

2010-01-20 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:21:19 David C. Rankin wrote: On 01/19/2010 04:43 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: After further testing with kernel 2.6.32.4-1, I have found two bugs: (1) the kernel upgrade kills WindowMaker (2) the kernel upgrade kills VirtualBox even with 2.6.32.3, I had to

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.32.4 -1 [ Possible Problems... ]

2010-01-20 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday 21 January 2010 00:50:22 David C. Rankin wrote: On 01/20/2010 11:28 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:21:19 David C. Rankin wrote: On 01/19/2010 04:43 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: After further testing with kernel 2.6.32.4-1, I have found two bugs

Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-13 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 13 January 2010 21:57:04 Christos Nouskas wrote: Kind of late response, but I strongly agree with Thomas. I've had my share of truncated files after unclean shutdowns (every single time), some kernel modules being among the victims. If you decide to decide to use ext4, then it's

Re: [arch-general] gmail and mailing list

2010-01-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 13 January 2010 01:55:40 Patrick Brisbin wrote: I've mine set to yes as well but I still don't get my own posts. Oh well, mutt to the rescue again: # cc myself when replying to an ML # note: with this, you can't :q! mid-compose to abort # instead, just :wq and abort from

[arch-general] Low volume for kopete notifications

2009-12-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello All, I got a new computer and installed arch on it. I have restored my home directory from other machine, which has lived thr. kde3 - kde4 transition and isn't exactly prestine. This is core2duo machine and the soundcard is 82801G HDA, as reported by lspci. I don't have pulseaudio

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

2009-12-03 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 04 December 2009 08:08:03 Arvid Picciani wrote: Ng Oon-Ee wrote: What does upstream have to say about this dependency? Does not seem 'necessary' to me http://blogs.igalia.com/itoral/2006/03/30/adding-dbus-support-to-gedit/ priceless finding. let me sum up: - There is

Re: [arch-general] Problem updating system

2009-12-02 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 14:46:58 Ty John wrote: On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:41:05 +0530 Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: Any ideas? If 'pacman -Syyu' doesn't work, then try changing the mirror. While I go on trying, could you please post your working mirror-list

[arch-general] Problem updating system

2009-12-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello All, I am having trouble doing a system upgrade. --- r...@presario pacman.d]# pacman -Sy :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date [r...@presario pacman.d]# pacman -Su ::

Re: [arch-general] usable browser?

2009-11-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 27 November 2009 09:59:55 Ian-Xue Li wrote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:51:36 +0100 Arvid Picciani a...@exys.org wrote: - no webkit ( i need to visit non w3c compliant sites ) - no gecko ( i don't have a raid11 in my laptop ) - no opera ( i hate popups ) - no chrome ( unusable

Re: [arch-general] MUA

2009-11-17 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 22:37:08 Arvid Picciani wrote: Mutt grows old and still doesn't do threads the way i want. i've tried sup, but find it too early in development. Especcially it is unusable slow. Can somone recommend another MUA? kmail. Using for last 5+ years with no real

[arch-general] file system capabilities

2009-11-04 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi, I was reading thr. /. commentary on the latest linux kernel bug, got drifted into file system capabilities. and got this, (from http://lwn.net/Articles/313838/) [r...@presario shridhar]# ls -la /bin/ping -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 33360 2008-10-04 17:48 /bin/ping [r...@presario shridhar]#

Re: [arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 26 October 2009 19:25:09 Lars Tennstedt wrote: I suggest the opposite in the facts of speed. My work's computer runs with Windows XP and the hardware is faster than mine at home. But Windows XP often stands still without a reason and takes ages to do something. KDE 4.3 on my Arch

Re: [arch-general] Opinion: What do you think about Lenovo IdeaPad Y450?

2009-09-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 03:01:54 Guilherme M. Nogueira wrote: So I was wondering if any of you has one, or has another Lenovo laptop and your opinions about it. I plan on using it with arch only. I use a compaq F733 laptop(I think that model does not ship anymore. Bought last april). It

Re: [arch-general] btrfs supported on archlinux

2009-09-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi, On Tuesday 08 September 2009 08:58:21 Laszlo Papp wrote: I'm just interested in when will btrfs filesystem be supported in archlinux in the official repository and on livecd ? It's available now from AUR some related packages, the stable releases can be seen here:

Re: [arch-general] Painful installation of 4.3 - some general advice needed.

2009-08-17 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
2) Dolphin - I really liked konqueror - can one still install this as a file browser. I note there is a kdebase-konqueror package, using this multiple 'file exists in the filesystem' messages I could use a force but god knows what this will trash. Any alternatives. I'm using konqueror

Re: [arch-general] Add phonon-xine to KDE deps?

2009-08-11 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 11:56:13 Manne Merak wrote: Edgar Kalkowski wrote: Am oder ungefähr am Montag, 10. August 2009, um 20:19:24 schrieb Sven- Hendrik Haase: Hey, I've found that I hardly get any sound at all in KDE without the phonon-xine package installed since KDE 4.3. I

Re: [arch-general] Add phonon-xine to KDE deps?

2009-08-11 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 12:22:34 Allan McRae wrote: Thirded :) I am still missing notification sounds from kopete though. And now I don't have any default device in system settings - multimedia - audio output - * Did you all install the needed gstreamer plugins for the files you wanted

Re: [arch-general] The vsftpd only starts at the second attempt

2009-08-05 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 11:45:55 Lucas Salies Brum wrote: can you start vsftpd manually? Yes! (r...@abraham lucas):$ vsftpd (r...@abraham lucas):$ ps -A | grep vsftpd 7934 ?00:00:00 vsftpd Can you try strace the process? How? in the example above, strace -p 7934 --

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] News item: vc/* to tty* transition

2009-07-23 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday 23 July 2009 18:55:40 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: (*) Some users can do a hot-update the whole KDE/GNOME while running and intend to continue working properly. ;) I don't expect it to work as such but being too lazy to leave current working env. just for upgrade, I have done

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